Brian's "Indy 500"

The HCM staff was going for a ride around Lake Washington when we happened to come across a little road side BBQ down on Rainier Ave, so we pulled over and sampled some of their meat. Five bucks bought me a couple ribs with Brian's home made sauce from Indiana.

1. Gear. It was a rather deluxe charcoal grill. It had a knob for raising and lowering the coals. 1.5 points.

2. Quality of Meat. My ribs were quite good. Not "blow your mind good" like Brock's smoked-for-7-hours ribs, but I did appreciate his special recipe for the sauce - kinda sweet and mild on the heat. Indianapolis style, we were told. And he had a good variety of beef, pork, chicken and links. 2 points.

3. Alcohol. No alcohol, just water and soda. But damn a beer would have been good. 0 points.

4.Side dishes. White bread. Somehow it was perfect. 1 point.

5. Crowd. We didn't really hang out too long, and it wasn't really a party, but Brian's five kids were playing in the lot. I gathered that Brian owned the hair styling place next door and a few of his customers were milling around. 2 points.

6. Music. Just the sound of traffic. 1 point.

7. Setting. Brian was set up next door to his Barber shop business right on Rainier Ave. just South of Fil and Carries place. It was basically an empty lot but it was perfect... 2 point.

8. Dessert. Just the Peanut Butter Clif Bar we carried with us. 0 points.

9. Did we like you? Hell, yeah. He and his buddies seemed nice enough. We talked briefly about how much Evel Kneivel kicked ass. "I don't care if you're black or white or whatever. Everyone likes Evel Kneivel. Evel Kneivel's a bad motherfucker." The concept of karma came up, but again, this wasn't a party, so we didn't really get to socialize as much as we wanted to. 2 points.

And that brings us to 11.5 out of 18, which may not seem like much, but I was very happy with my food and I would encourage any of you to pull over and grab a quick rib for the road, the training food of champions.